4TheRcrd Mag.

Time flies…week 2 of my clerkship ended with a graveyard shift in emergency on Friday. On my way to the hospital that night, an ambulance passed me by, and it took a while for it to sink in that both of us were heading to the same place, that I will get to meet the [...]

Hmmm. Call me paranoid, but is it me or has there been a steady flux of Super-American-Heroe s invading the silver screen since 9-11? Pop-cultural-wise, what does this mean to us the hapless consumers? When we are current laid seige by a barrage of Alien red caped wonders, Home-grown genetic mutants, the spider-bittens and the [...]

Once again I have picked up the metaphorical quill and began to dampen it’s point into the ink pot of life. Or less pretentiously, it’s mother-fucking rant time. Have you ever tried to quit smoking? I don’t recommend it. If you’re tired of smoking, try sucking on the barrel of a shotgun. It will be [...]

Usually when it comes to sex, people don’t really bother considering it in terms of the law – needless to say it’s a very personal thing. I was surfing the net and reading articles about prostitution in Vancouver and decided I wanted to take a look at the legal side of it. I discovered that [...]

If you’re twenty-something, a college student, live in an urban city, or any combination of the three, you’ve probably seen keffiyehs adorned by countless young hipsters, activists and fashion-minded folk in the last couple of years. The keffiyeh began its career as a political statement in Occupied Palestine in the 1930’s, as a symbol of [...]

Here’s a thought about entitlement. Before we started pumping it all out, there were about 6 trillion barrels of oil on our planet. By the best estimates, we’ve got about half of that left. There is currently a population of 6.5 billion people on the earth, and, if we all get a good crack at [...]

Z-Day has come and gone. March 15th was the official date for world wide events, based around the viewing of the movie Zeitgeist. Multiple venues around Vancouver were involved in housing viewings. If you haven’t watched this monumental think-piece of a movie, you are missing out. Whether you decide to take Zeitgeist as verbatim truth [...]

“[During the Hippie Movement]…You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t [...]

In the horrific struggle between Palestine and Israel which periodically splashes its way onto our newspapers and television and computer screens, it’s often all-too easy for the media to ignore issues of women’s health. It’s clear that the unjust treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli Occupation has a direct impact on women’s lives. [...]

Are you bored with our new Translink Board of Directors? Thought that they would actually adhere to their “no closed door meeting” policy? Ha! Boy were we fooled. So what is the first thing they do? Hold a closed door meeting and give themselves a $1,000 per meeting raise … a meeting they can attend [...]